The acting President of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno Bonilla, set as a goal yesterday, taking advantage of Labor Day, for Andalucía to reach “the national average” in terms of unemployment in the next legislature.
“Just because it has never happened does not mean we are not prepared when it does.” The phrase, from a Vox spokesperson, does not refer to the prevention of a health or climate emergency, but to the possibility of a woman dressed in a burka or niqab entering public offices. Specifically, in the Diputación de Valencia, the latest institution to join, this very week, the several dozen town halls, half of the regional parliaments, and even the Congress itself, which have voted on initiatives promoted by the far right against the use of the full Islamic veil (burka or niqab) in public buildings. The texts – only half of which have succeeded – mostly urge the Government to legislate on the matter, as it is a state competence. But the left refuses to ban the veil, for reasons of religious freedom and because there are no burkas in Spain and the niqab is a minority.
“Besides the substance, the form must also be cared for.” The spokesperson of the PNV’s warning to Pedro Sánchez addressed the entire chamber this week. The president transformed, lowered his tone, thanked the constructive opposition of Basque nationalism, and moved on from the latest chapter
The President of the Government has demanded this afternoon the immediate release of the Palestinian-Spanish citizen Saif Abu Keshek, who was traveling with the flotilla towards the coast of Gaza and was intercepted by the Israeli army. Sánchez has considered that Keshek is a victim of kidnapping.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo has lashed out this May 1st against Pedro Sánchez’s Government, since, in his opinion, economic policy and corruption are discouraging work. “In Spain, it must be worthwhile to work and make an effort again,” states the manifesto published by the PP. Later, through social media, Feijóo himself has reproached the high taxes that workers are having to pay. “Working must serve to live, not just to pay,” he has pointed out.
Pedro Sánchez will not participate this Friday in the multiple demonstrations that, on the occasion of May Day, are held throughout Spain and in which a good part of the members of the Government and the PSOE will be deployed. But the head of the Executive has wanted to participate in this Labor Day with a video in which he claims that in Spain “there is more employment and rights than ever,” despite those who he has criticized for announcing the apocalypse for years, referring to the Popular Party and the far-right Vox.
Comisiones Obreras and UGT claim that they decided to hold the May 1st demonstration in Málaga long before Juanma Moreno dissolved the Andalusian parliament and called for elections on May 17. The fact is that today, the first day of the Andalusian electoral campaign, coincided with the march through the center of the Málaga capital with the union leaders at the front and a little further back the left-wing candidates in these elections, among them, María Jesús Montero and the Government spokesperson, Elma Saiz, the Vice President of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, and Antonio Maíllo, candidate of Por Andalucía. ç
Koldo García wanted to become yesterday the protector and squire of his former boss, José Luis Ábalos, during his interrogation as an accused in the trial held at the Supreme Court for the so-called mask case. The former advisor took on as his own the actions that were for the former Minister of Transport because, as he said, “he will always be grateful” for appointing him as his personal advisor after meeting him during the PSOE primaries in 2017, after which Pedro Sánchez was proclaimed secretary general.
The first illusion is optical. It consists of believing that an electoral campaign in Andalusia involves environmental tension, social activism, and mass movements (of day laborer inspiration), which is the wet dream in the chancelleries of all political parties. It is not
Juanma Moreno, the president of the junta and PP candidate, started the electoral campaign tonight in the Murillo gardens in Seville in a quasi-family event. Not many people, all of them loyal devotees of the president waving Andalusian and Spanish flags.